Department of Dentistry (Research & Academics)

  • At Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery we try to serve our community with the highest level of care possible. We stay committed to this goal through extensive continuing education of the doctors and staff.
  • Since its establishment we have been training post graduate residents of MDS and FCPS and the successful doctors are now working in different parts of country as well as abroad.
  • We have been conducting weekly presentation and discussion session in auditorium in which all the residents and house officers take extensive part in sharing their knowledge on different subjects and topics of basic sciences as well as the latest advances made in Modern age of medical field.
  • Junior doctors are assigned different topics to come and present on stage which help in their communication and presentation skills.
  • Academic sessions are some times conducted in collaboration with other disciplines like ENT, Plastic surgery, Dermatology, Neurosurgery and Operative Dentistry to share with them our experiences and get benefit from their knowledge and experience in head and neck region.
  • Extensive case discussion and treatment planning is done during daily ward rounds and clinical examination skills are polished under the supervision of seniors. Post graduate training programs involve lectures, seminars, ward rounds, journal club and clinical training for period of four years.
  • The goal of the Oral and Maxillofacial surgery department is to train residents and students in the practice of oral and maxillofacial surgery. This is accomplished through provision of out patient clinical experience, inpatient care services and emergency services based on sound scientific principles and instruction while contributing to new knowledge through Advances in Research.
  • All the residents have been assigned different topics of research as a mandatory part of their training.
  • In the past good amount of research has been done in our department in the fields of Oral and Maxillofacial trauma, oral pathology, prosthetic rehabilitation as well as facial neurological deficits.
  • Many of our research topics have been published in renowned medical and dental journals as well.
  • It is our firm belief that with the provision of better facilities and environment our department has full potential to contribute and research in the more advanced fields like cancers, micro vascular, corrective and cosmetic facial surgeries and stem cell regeneration of oral tissues
  • As part of the postgraduate training programs (MDS/FCPS),residents are required to undertake a research project under supervision. They are required to carry out practical work and to produce an original written thesis in connection with it. The topic of the project is finalized between the residents, the director and the project supervisors. Every effort is made to allow the residents to work in an area in which they are interested.
S# Name Designation BPS Qualification Picture
1 Dr. Zahoor A. Rana Professor 20 BDS, MDS
2 Dr. Muhammad Umar Farooq Assistant Professor 18 BDS, MFDS RCS(Eng),DDCS(Eng),MDS
3 Dr. Abdul Wali Khan Senior Registrar(internal arrangement) 17 BDS
4 Dr. Anam Iqbal Medical Officer 17 BDS,FCPS
5 Dr. Maria Tahir Medical Officer 17 BDS,FCPS
6 Dr. Ali Iftikhar Medical Officer 17 BDS, MCPS
7 Dr. Tanvir Ahmed Medical Officer 17 BDS
8 Dr. Faheem Ahmed Medical Officer 17 BDS

Post Graduate Residents OF OMFS (FCPS,MDS)

  1. Dr.Sana Ali
  2. Dr .Misbah Razzaq
  3. Dr. Ali Ejaz
  4. Dr. Khadija Shah
  5. Dr. Junaid Arshad
  6. Dr. Noor Ul Ain
  7. Dr. Jamal Ahmed
  8. Dr Haseeb ud din
  9. Dr Beenish Pervaiz
  10. Dr. Khursheed Achakzai

Supporting Staff

S# Name Designation BPS Qualification Nature Of Job
1 Khawaja Sarfaraz Ahmed Principal technician 17 FSc Dental hygienist Principal technician
2 Muhammad Mohsin Lower Division Clerk (LDC) 09 FA PA to Professor
3 Younas John Ward Boy 04 Matric Ward Boy

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